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diff --git a/textproc/libparsifal/pkg-descr b/textproc/libparsifal/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..664bbf047a5a --- /dev/null +++ b/textproc/libparsifal/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Parsifal is minimal non-validating XML parser written in ANSI C. Parsifal +implements the subset of SAX2 including namespace support. + +Parsifal can be used for parsing XML based messages (such as SOAP and RSS) and +for application specific data processing e.g. config files, data files etc. +Parsifal can also be used for limited document-oriented processing and for +parsing modular documents because it contains supports for internal and +external general entities - it doesn't support currently parameter entities or +other DTD features. Parsifal can be used for processing large data files and +streams too since its SAX based and consumes very little memory not to mention +it is fast enough for most purposes 'cos its written in C. + +Using Parsifal in place of large XML processing libraries (e.g. libxml, xerces) +or even in the place of small Expat (which is considerably bigger and more +complicated) can be justified for limited memory environments and in +applications requiring bundled parser. If you need higher level tools, for +example library supporting DTD validation or dom/xpath processing, you should +look for other libs of course. + +WWW: http://www.saunalahti.fi/~samiuus/toni/xmlproc/ |